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Adapted from a comic-book series, this horror drama follows the survivors of an apocalyptic holocaust who are searching for a safe haven while being tracked and menaced by zombies. In the first season, sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) emerges from a coma to find few people but far too many flesh-eating "walkers" who have died and come back to life. A fellow survivor tells him there's a refugee center in Atlanta, so he heads there with hopes of finding his missing wife and son,
eventually joining with others to fight off the walkers.… More

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The survivors of a world overrun with zombies are followed in this horror series. In the first episode, a sheriff's deputy emerges from a coma to find few people but far too many flesh-eating "walkers" who have died and come back to life. The lawman encounters another member of the human race, who tells him there's a refugee center in Atlanta, so he heads there with hopes of finding his missing wife and son.

Rick receives some surprise help escaping from a tank surrounded by walkers, and hooks up with a resourceful survivor who leads him to other humans holed up in a downtown department store. The group is none-too-pleased with Rick, whose gunshots have attracted a rapacious rabble of zombies, and he is forced to come up with a gutsy plan to get them out of the city.

Against his better judgment, Rick heads back to Atlanta to recover his cache of guns and ammo and hopefully retrieve the redneck bully originally left behind. Meanwhile, Lori and Shane are shocked by the return of someone they feared was dead.

On the whole, I'd say The Walking Dead worth a look, no matter what your genre preferences, but horror aficionados are more likely to enjoy this intense, blood-spattered tale, which... is about as aesthetically well-crafted as a TV show can be.

An ongoing nightmare requires ongoing viewers, and therefore a show that stays strong as it goes along, if not one that gets better and better over time, and I'm not sold that The Walking Dead is that kind of show.

The 90-minute pilot paints a thoroughly convincing postapocalyptic world, both visually and emotionally. Yes, it delivers astonishing scenes of devastation, but its more affecting - and more horrifying - concerns are human.

Season three feels like a new start for The Walking Dead, bringing it a little closer to fulfilling the expectations raised by original showrunner Frank Darabont's involvement, the award-winning source material, and AMC's pedigree.

The Walking Dead... still believes in the importance of monsters, perfectly balancing the struggle of basic human decency with those palsied four-in-the-morning moments when we are convinced that everyone around us is trying to eat us llive.

Like the zombies that populate it, "The Walking Dead" doesn't move especially fast. But even though things are at a slow burn throughout much of the show's first two episodes, there's a lot to soak up along the way.

Audience Reviews for The Walking Dead: Season 1

It's a good thing I started watching this at the start of season 2, because if I thought this was what was on offer, I wouldn't have kept going,Whilst I?ll admit that season 1 was pretty decent, I was sort of expecting more.Trying to latch a viewer whole heartedly in only 6 episodes is hard work, of course, but there still could probably have been more done. A little bit closer to the comics in some areas mightn?t have gone astray, and the entire last episode felt rather unpleasantly forced.I can also appreciate that there needs to be a dynamic in the characters, you can?t like them all or the whole thing becomes unbelievable and boring. But when I found myself appreciating the red neck douchebag the most who?s only in the thing for one episode the most, maybe you have too many annoying characters.I?ve already caught half of season 2, so I suppose in some ways I am comparing this to that, which is unfair, but I felt that the zombies later on give of this real sense of foreboding, that maybe everyone running around was actually afraid of them. Season 1 on the other hand, has a single jump scare where they kill off an abusive husband. Yeah, devastating, I really felt that loss AMC.First seasons are usually not the best, and with only six episodes, it?s harder to split the differences and find a bunch of really great stuff. No actors, no characters, no storyline and no individual episode really jumped out at me and had serious staying power.However, what The Walking Dead most certainly does have going for it from the starting line, is special effects. The zombies in this program are literally some of, if not the best, that I have ever seen. Legless-crawlin?-type-lady was particularly brilliant. It wasn?t enough to bring the show up to my echelon of favourites or anything, but goddamn do their makeup department ever deserve some props!

This adaptation of Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore's graphic novel supplies plenty of action, drama, peril & cliffhangers to drive audiences to tune in to the next episode(s). The Walking Dead Season 1 is complex and brilliant in displaying the zombie apocalypse. 4.5/5

The introduction to this series is nearly flawless and very creepy. every episode is filled with Nods to classic zombie movies and is very cinematic. They even re-released it in black and white which makes it much more atmospheric and cold. There are only a couple hickups in the series like when they introduce a TV only hispanic gang bent on keeping a convalescent home safe from flesh eating zombies, even if it means stealing from you.